Improvement in chair-braces



UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICEo IMPROVEMENT IN cH'AlR-BRAcEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. {91,835, dated June 12, 1877; application tiled January 29, 1877.

To all uhom it may concern Be it known that I,JAMES W. COLLINS, of Laramie City, in the county of Albany and Ter ritory of Wyoming, have invented a new and Improved Chair-Brace, of which the following is a specification Fig. l is a rear elevation of a chair having my improved brace attached. Fig. 2 is a detail view of thel upper end ot' the braces and the socket for receiving the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement relates to a brace to be .attached to an ordinary chair, to strengthen and sti'en it, and to draw its joints firmly together.

lt consists of a cross-piece attached to the under side of a chair-bottom, and provided with sockets for receiving the upper ends of braces that incline downward and outward, and are attached to the legs ot' the chair near their lower extremities.

The braces are provided with turn-buckles', for giving the braces the required tension.

In the drawing, A is an ordinary chair, to the under side of the bottom of which the cross-piece B is attached. In'this cross-piece a socket is formed for receiving the heads a of the braces C. These brace-heads are introduced to their sockets through a central opening fiiled by the screw b.

Y The lower ends of the braces C are attached to plates c, which are attached to the chair- The braces C, having turn-buckles D and plates c, in ,combination with the cross piece B having a central socket for receiving` the" heads of the said braces, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES W. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

. JOHN P. BARcKwAY,

M. C. BROWN. 

